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Re: files/dirs under /var/www/



Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:43:42PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > I had this same dilemma and couldn't find anything on it in policy, so
> > I just changed DocumentRoot to /usr/local/share/www.
> > 
> > (Web files are mostly static anyway, why under /var?)
> 
> depends on the site, some sites are indeed modified alot.
> 
> another place would be /home/www i suppose, that would make quotas a
> bit more convenient to maintain.  probably violates FHS however.

Dunno about FHS, but wouldn't /var/local/www be an appropriate place?
Note, FHS 2.1 does neither mention /var/www nor /var/local.

/var/local is part of the base-files package and no other packages
install anything there as of today's potato/Contrib-i386.gz

-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development



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